Conceptual Details

Below are some unofficial conceptual explanations about the Diaspora platform. Most of these ideas are still very much just WIP, and some of these pages are deprecated concepts.

Encryption

Discussion revolving around Diaspora's Encryption implementation.

Client Server Model

A discussion over a possible client-server model.

Linked Data

This is a discussion on whether it would be beneficial to make use of Linked Data in Diaspora, and some ideas about a general implementation.

Message Semantics

This document describes the semantics of each type of message that Diaspora pods send to one another. Together, they constitute the semantics of Diaspora's federation.

Message Passing

An explanation of how encrypted messages are passed between Diaspora pods